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NASA to Cover 34th SpaceX Resupply Mission Space Station Departure

- SpaceX’s Dragon cargo spacecraft will undock from the ISS on June 16 (about 12:05 p.m. EDT) with live coverage starting at 11:45 a.m. EDT on NASA+, Amazon Prime, and NASA’s YouTube channel. - Dragon will reenter June 17 and splash down off California around 5:08 a.m. PDT; NASA will post splashdown updates on its space station blog but will not stream it. - The vehicle is returning nearly 6,500 pounds of cargo, including bioprinted tissues, cryogenic fuel‑storage data, DNA‑inspired materials, and hardware such as an ocular imager and air‑filtering bed. - Dragon arrived at the station May 17 after launching May 15 on a Falcon 9.

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